| 单词 |
novenary |
| 释义 |
novenary, a. and n.|ˈnɒvənərɪ|
[ad. L. novēnārius, f. novem nine. So F. novénaire, It. and Sp. novenario.]
A. adj. Pertaining to, or consisting of, the number nine. rare.
1603Holland Plutarch Explan. Words, Novenary number, that is to say, Nine. 1609C. Butler Fem. Monar. (1634) 31 The seven Novenary ranks from West to East. 1635Heywood Hierarchie iv. 208 Prime Muses of the Novenary stocke.
B. n.
1. An aggregate or set of nine.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 29/1 From Brute to the extinction of his posteritie..are 630 yeares, or 70 nouenaries. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 215 By these numbers..he implyeth Climactericall years, that is, septenaries, and novenaries set downe by the bare observation of numbers. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 146 We are not at all concerned in the Octonary and Novenary, they having no reference to any of the Days of the Creation.
2. = novena.
1818Southey in Q. Rev. XVIII. 10 A novenary or service of nine days was performed for him. 1855Kelly tr. Cervantes' Exempl. Novels 119 To perform a novenary in the church of our Lady of Guadalupe. |
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